正如 hot temper 中 hot 可以描述一個人性情比較急躁，易怒

cool 本意是”涼涼的”，可以描述一個人很冷靜， 沉着

keep one's cool 保持冷靜， 沉着

英文釋義：keep calm, control your temper

Keep your cool. Everything will be fine.

保持冷靜。一切都會好起來的。

Keep your cool and your sense of humour.

保持你的冷靜和你的幽默感。

Please keep your cool on such occasion.

在這種場合下，請保持冷靜。

“保持冷靜”除了 keep one's cool 也可以說：

play it cool

I was trying hard to play it cool when he said that.

當他說那樣的話的時候我很努力地才能保持冷靜。

If things go wrong, don't panic. Just play it cool and keep going.

如果遇到問題，不要驚慌。隻要冷靜下來繼續進行下去就好了。

You must learn to play it cool.

你必須學會遇事泰然處之。

remain/stay calm 保持冷靜，保持鎮靜

So there are many reasons to remain calm.

因此，我們有充分理由要時刻保持冷靜。

Try to remain calm and not too anxious.

試着保持冷靜，别太緊張。

The main thing is to stay calm.

最重要的是要保持冷靜。

His suggestion is that we should stay calm.

他的建議是，我們應該保持冷靜。

The ability to keep calm is one of her many strengths.

能夠保持冷靜是她的多項長處之一。

calm down 平靜下來；鎮定下來

You should calm down and think carefully.

你應該冷靜下來好好想一想。

You'd better calm down and level your voice when you give a speech.

演講時你最好鎮定下來并放平聲調。

keep one's head 保持鎮靜

Above all, keep your head in the face of danger.

最主要的是，面臨危險要鎮靜。

keep a level head 保持鎮定

We should learn to keep a level head in an emergency.

在緊急情況，我們應學會保持頭腦冷靜。

emergency [iˈmɜːdʒənsi] n. 緊急情況；突發事件；非常時刻

They will need to keep a level head to deal with the problems they will face in 2011.

他們需要保持冷靜的頭腦來處理2011年即将面臨的問題。

keep one's shirt on 不慌張，不發脾氣，保持鎮靜

He was beginning to holler, so she told him to keep his shirt on.

他大聲叫喊起來了，所以她才叫他保持鎮靜。

holler [ˈhɒlə(r)] v. 叫喊

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